Improvement in apparatus for assorting nails



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Apparatus for Assorting Nails.

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. PHoro-umoGnAPH/c co. Mx( essaim-19 Pnoesss) UNITED STATES JOHN OOYNE, OF PITTSBUBG, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ROBERTO PATEMLOFFIQ E.,

MAN, OF THE BOROUGH OF ETNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FORASSORTING NAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,548, dated June 3, 1873 application filed March 23, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN COYNE, of' Pittsburg. in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a' new and useful Improvement in Out-N ail Sorter, ot' which the following is a specilication My invention has forits object to provide a simple yet perfectly reliable apparatus or device for assortin g cut nails.

Heretofore this work has been done by hand so far as done at all; and the result is that, on an average, from two to tive pounds of imperfect or headless nails, and scrap, and cinder, are sold with every keg of nails; and in view ot' the fact that between tive and six millions of such kegs are made and sold every year in the United States, and these mainly by one or two cities, the necessity of' such an invention in this country aloneV is sufficiently apparent.

I construct my apparatus somewhat on the plan ot' ceitain screw-feeders in use in this country and in England-t-hat is to say, of inclined plates so arranged with a cent-ral angleplate as to forni slotted or open channels or gutters between them, through which the re.- fuse metal and headless nails will pass, and thus be ready for removal for economic purposes. To adapt the apparatus for separating nails of different sizes, as carpettacks from shingle-nails, &c., or for analogous purposes,

I make the inclined' side plates laterally adjustable, all as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a view of the bottom or reverse side ofthe apparatus. Fig. 2 isa top side view. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line xof Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

In this example of my invention' I show am central angle-plate, A, and on either side an adjustable plate, B, inclined toward the angleplate A, thrilling two slotted gutters. The plates B B are made adjustable by means of slots and screws, the slot-holes being made in the transverse stra-ps D, which hold the parts together, as seenin Fig. 1. These plates B B are made adjustable for varying the width of the slot-openings E E. There are three, more or less, ot' the cross-straps D bent down ifeneath the openings E E, as seen in Fig. to allow a nail to hang by its head and slide down. as represented. n

The apparatus thus constructed, is placed in an inclined position, so that the nails from the machine will fall upon the central angleplate A, and slide in either direction to the openings E E. The imperfect nails, scraps, cinders, &c., will pass through the openings, while the perfect nails or those with heads will catch and slide down, and thus be separated from the headless nails and other waste.

Having thus described myinvention, l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Batent- 1. An improved n ail separating and assorting apparatus, formed ot' the inclined side plates B B and thecentral angle and dividing plate A, arrangedas shown and described, to form longitudinal openings or slots E E, one on each side ofthe angle-plate, whereby the im perfect nails will be delivered through said openings into suitable receptacles, and the perfect nails will be delivered at the lower end ofthe apparatus, asspeciiied.

2. The combination' ot"inclined plates B,

angleplate A, and slotted transverse straps D with their set-screws, by means ot' which the said pla-tes B are made adjustable, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

3. In an apparatus for asserting and separating nails, the inclined plate or plates B, made adjustable laterally with j, respect tothe plate forming the opposite side of the trough for recept-ion of the nails, as shown and described, whereby the width ofthe longitudinal opening or openings E Einay be varied according to the special work to be done, as set forth.

' JOHN GOYNE.`

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, T. B. MosHER. 

